Performance: “A Mother’s Rivers of Tears”

María Magdalena Campos-Pons in collaboration with Kamaal Malak reprise this immersive performance “A Mother’s Rivers of Tears,” which debuted at the opening of Behold at the Brooklyn Museum in 2023.

Drawing on ancestral rituals from the Yoruba people, this performance—a mesmerizing synthesis of dance, poetry, live music, video, and more—is a manifestation of many healing themes mirrored in Behold. It poetically commemorates the lives of Black men and women whose journeys were interrupted as result of historical fractures in the delivery of justice.